Everytime a brand released a new highlighter, you went crazy and swear THIS IS your highlighter and IT IS THE ONLY highlighter you need. You hunt for it, you bought it and then, another brand also released a new highlighter, you find yourself repeating the same reaction or process. And another brand, and another. The story goes on. “I only need this highlighter in my life”. How often have you said that or heard your friend said that? Too often . “I only need this highlighter in my life” – NOT!

As much as I still go gaga or ooohhhs and ahhhhs over new highlighter releases, I don’t find myself wanting to purchase them. It’s getting stale. I find that everybody in the whole wide world is forever never ending releasing a new highlighter. It’s getting too repetition that I got bored and stopped buying highlighters. Let’s be honest here. Highlighter never finishes! I piled them up on my face every day and I don’t see that I’ll hit pan anytime soon. Let me show you my small little highlighter in my collection, which are my favourite and why I don’t purchase anymore highlighters.

Ultimate favourite, the one I regretted not buying a few more

I have heard Zoella talking about the Estée Lauder Pure Color Illuminating Powder Gelée Blush so many times that I regretted not getting it while I still can.

2 years ago, I went to Estée Lauder Staff Sale and I saw this! There she was, sitting beautifully on the table with no one near it. Everyone probably thinking it is too shimmery to be used as a blush but I knew this is not a blush type of blush but a darn pretty highlighter. I giggled my way to the table and grabbed one without blinking. Not even a split second. I had an urge to grabbed another one but I thought I wouldn’t use this as much as that time I wasn’t into all the contouring and highlighting routine. It was my one and only highlighter and I have used it so much so that it has a small dent to it. It’s a waste that Estée Lauder no longer make them anymore as they are the most absolute gorgeous highlighter ever. I was hoping that I will see this at the next warehouse sale but nope, these never make an appearance anymore. It was made in 2013 so Estée Lauder wouldn’t sell this at 2016 staff sale. No way I am throwing this away. There is something about a pink highlighter that goes on so beautifully on the skin. I never quite get this effect from other highlighter except from this. It’s the only highlighter that shows up on photos for me.

The one that shocked me and caught on camera

I tried this Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips All-in-1 Custom Nude Palette For Face & Eyes one day on camera and my shocking reaction was caught on point on camera.

Not only this Shimmer Strips has a cute lace box packaging, albeit a bit bulky but I like lace so yeah. It is said for the face and eyes. So far I used it as highlighter as that’s what I learnt from international Youtubers. Plus I have a separate eye palette within the range for my eyes so I don’t use this for the eyes. Some people has been using the warm bronzey bottom as their bronzer but I find it to be too shimmery. As a topper yes, not as the main bronzer alone. I like to use the top two rows, run my brush on them several times and voilá. The highlighter is so blinding that it lasts the entire day. If you have darker skin, just swirl everything together. Another thing I notice is how fine the shimmers are. There aren’t much powder kick back to it. Although I have been using this like crazy, I still don’t see a dent. How is that even possible! I am so totally recommending this if you need a good highlighter that is absolutely affordable.

Waitlisted, bought and disappointed, the one that is cheap but does nothing

I wanted to complain about the ELF Illuminating Palette so much but it is so cheap, like RM26.84 cheap that I shut my mouth lol.

I own a ELF Contour Palette and it was not too bad so when iHerb has the Blush Palette and Illuminating Palette, I bought immediately. However the Illuminating Palette was sold out within the next minute that I was put on waitlist. I immediately check out when it was back in stock.

It was a disappointing palette to be honest. It has no pigmentation AT ALL. The only shade that is more shimmery is the 1st shade on the top left. The rest is more of a matte shade with no pigmentation at all. I don’t reach out for this palette at all nowadays as this palette require plenty of time piling up. And the end result is not wow even though so

Does better than how it look

I decided to lump these two Essence Prismatic Rainbow Glow Highlighter and Wet n Wild Mega Cushion Highlight together because my thoughts on them are pretty similar.

Essence Prismatic Rainbow Glow Highlighter is an exciting purchase this year. It is so cheap and it’s pretty interesting to see a rainbow highlighter turned into a golden highlight. It is beautiful on the skin, with super fine shimmers and almost no powder kick back. The highlight is subtle but definitely there type of highlighter. As it is a golden-ish type of highlight, I can’t see clearly in my dark room and I always end up piling them. What amazed me was that, no matter how much I used, it is not blinding or looking too overly done. It is still beautifully highlighting and yet not overly done type of highlighter.

Wet n Wild Mega Cushion Highlight on another hand requires a little bit of getting used to at first when it is new. At the beginning I ended up with a patchy highlight strip on the top of my cheeks and that freak me out. Later on I found a way around; and that is to tap on the back of my hand to even out the liquid highlight before dabbing it on my cheek bone. It is so gorgeous! I was blown away everytime I whipped this out to use. The end result looks like as I was using an expensive highlighter but actually this cost just $5.99 each. I’m glad I bought 2!

The most outrageous expensive highlighter I use

Ahhhh Guerlain Coque D’Or Perfumed Shimmer Powder Body & Hair. I fell in love with this mainly for its packaging. Do I have any use for perfumed powder? Not at all

These days no one goes out with shimmery hair or skin unless you are in a photo shoot or fashion show. I missed the previous one so I told myself I have to get this. And I did. Then I ended up not knowing what to do with it. It cost me nearly RM400. I told myself it’s too expensive as vanity table decoration lol. So I ended up using it on my cheek bone as highlighter! It works but the misting has to be really precise and on point. If not and you need to spread it out with your fingers, you will find all the shimmers stick to your fingers instead of the face. It’s a waste of money I tell you lol. During my earlier highlighting days, I used to use this a lot but I can never get a precise mist. It always ended up on my cheeks rather than on my cheekbone. It also has fly away shimmers that tend to get on every other part of the face. It’s outrageous, it’s expensive and I’m using it as highlighter. Oh well

Now, confession time. Which one of you cannot stop buying highlighter? I think I have problem to stop purchasing contour or bronzing product but highlighter? I don’t need a lot. So far I have been doing pretty good.

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If you have been following Street Love long enough you will know that I love buying American products even before I am a beauty blogger. Now that I am one, I secretly like to source for American makeup products that are not available in Malaysia. There is something about owning products which no one or less people own that makes it even more special. Watching lots of Youtube videos does not help. It makes me crave for even more new makeup releases, hoping one fine day these brands will hit Malaysia market.

I for one is not into sprees or pre-orders. I know that is the only way to get my hands on American products but homegirl has zero patient for that . I had several chat with my ex-school mate who is currently residing in the States and so far I have yet to place my order because I was worried about the shipping. Everytime my friends bought American products directly, I ask them and they refuse to tell me how they got it ship to Malaysia. You know what? You will not expect that greediness from me because I am all about sharing the good stuff with everyone. Follow my Instagram Stories whenever I go shopping and you will know lol. My DM will be buzzing non-stop!

Now back to how I shop at Walgreens and get it ship to me in Malaysia. I Insta Story my Walgreens shopping 2 weeks ago and that got a lot of people DM-ing me asking me how. I did not want to say much that time because I want to go through the entire process first before getting everyone on the bandwagon. So my reply to everyone who asked was “you need a forwarding company”. I think they get it. They just do not know how or who to go for. Just like me before this. My secret? myMallBox.com!

Most of the beauty brand do ship directly to Malaysia but not drugstore such as Target, Ulta, Walgreens or Walmart. So most people from every other part of the world uses a forwarding company. Before I decided to use myMallBox, I read through the entire website and glance through their plan comparison versus other companies. It is very clear to me that myMallBox is the right choice. It is almost free to use the service. The only payment I will be paying is the shipping fee.

Being a noob and a first timer, I have no idea how all this third party forwarding company works. Lucky for me myMallBox does include a step-by-step self-explanatory pictorial on how the company works.

In conclusion, myMallBox serves a few purpose – to provide you with a US address, to help you to buy whatever you want (optional), as a warehouse, to consolidate your parcels and as a shipper. For me, I uses myMallBox as my ‘invisible’ US address, and to ship the parcel to me. As soon as I registered for an account with myMallBox, I was provided with a US address, which was listed on the top right in my account. All I need to do is to fill that into the online store as shipping address.

As I was doing my research on myMallBox, I was curious with their shipping rate. I really like how simple and yet helpful the website is because whatever I can think of to find out, it is clearly stated in the website. Shipping rate, for example is crucial for me. Buying a drugstore makeup is cheap no doubt but a high shipping rate can elevate the value making the purchase not worth it at all. I use the Shipping Rate calculator in the website to help me to gauge roughly how much the shipping rate would be.

Here is the best part. When I click “Calculate”, I was brought to a page where every available shipping option are listed out for me, together with the rate, shipping duration and excerpt description on the shipping option. It also clearly stated whether the option is trackable or non-trackable. Being able to track a parcel is important unless you have never encounter lost parcel before then I guess you are not bothered with it.

I had a hard time choosing where to shop. It is either this store has 4 out of 5 items I want or 2 out of 5 items I want. Finally I went with Walgreens because I wanted the Wet n Wild Mega Cushion Highlighter. In order to get a standard 1 – 3 days free shipping to my US address, I round up my total purchase to US$35. True enough, my parcel reached my US address within the stated shipping duration and I received a happy email from myMallBox telling me that my parcel has reached them!

Immediately, I logged into my myMallBox account and I see my package listed in my account. I select the parcel and clicked “Repack”.

Wrong move! I am supposed to select and click “Add To Cart”. I panicked a little bit because I could not find the cancel option or button anywhere. I quickly email myMallBox customer service and received a reply the next day that my request to repack has been cancelled. Phew!

So now I see another order in my account lol.

This time I make sure I select it and click Add To Cart directly. In my Cart, I saw all available shipping option and the rate listed out as an option for me to select. I knew there and then I have to go with DHL Express because I have had wonderful experience with them for all my iHerb haul. Furthermore the rates are not much different so why not, eh?

If you ask me if it is too expensive to go with DHL Express. The answer is a yes and no. It really depends on what you buy and the urgency of your purchase. The area I stay is considered a small town and based on my US haul experiences previously since 20 years ago, 9 out of 10 of my parcel are either lost or stolen. So I dare not take non-trackable parcel risk again. And if you get everything you want in one shot it would be worth it. I am just trying out the service so I only make a small purchase this time around

Checking out is pretty much a step-by-step guided process. If you have Paypal it is so much easier to pay for anything online.

Within a minute I was done!

It was a Sunday morning when I complete the transaction and my parcel was sent out the next day. As usual, myMallBox sent me an email notifying me that they had already process and ship out my parcel. DHL Express tracking number were also provided in the email and the parcel tracking begins immediately.

My small Walgreens haul. Small but extremely happy to get my hands on these. All this is made possible thanks to package forwarding company like myMallBox.com.

– Milani Conceal + Perfect 2-in-1 Foundation+ Concealer (02 Natural & 03 Light Beige) – $9.99 each
– Maybelline Fit Me! Matte + Poreless Foundation (230 Natural Buff) – $7.99. Got this for free with Buy 2 Free 1 promo
– Wet n Wild Mega Cushion Highlight (Who’s That Pearl) – $5.99 each
– Wet n Wild MegaLast Liquid Catsuit Matte Lipstick (Rebel Rose) – $4.99

That, is how I managed to shop at Walgreens and get it shipped to me in Malaysia. I paid no extra fee or charges by using myMallBox except for the courier fee and the product, of course. Basically to shop online in the USA, you need a US address. myMallBox provides me with an address, kept my parcel, consolidate if I have more than 1 parcel and help me to ship it down to me. My dream to buy anything from the US came true! There will be more haul to come now that I know how to do it and how easy it is.

Do check out myMallBox.com and start your American dream shopping!

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Soooo. I’ve totally missed October and November 2014 favourites. I went back to working life and I didn’t expect to be home that late and the need to work on weekend as well. For the past one month, I’ve totally missed all the usual blogging schedule. I’d be lying to you if I tell you I didn’t panic. I did. I tried adjusting my life back to blogging but I really couldn’t find the time. There was so much to do and catch up on weekend. I didn’t even have the time to take photo for the blog. It is a tough time for me so please bear with me for a little while more. I want to thank each and every one of you for the never ending support and love. You girls rocks! <3

Since I missed October and November 2014 favourites, I thought it only make sense for me to post up December 2014 Favourites sooner than expected otherwise I’d miss it again. This month is all about the eyeliner pencils. It really is. Until I started to dig out my other favourites to balance out the eyeliner pencil overload LOL.

MAKE UP FOR EVER Flat Steel Palette (Large)
I’ve been wanting a mixing palette for quite some time. The one I wanted is MAKE UP FOR EVER but I always thought it’s expensive. I knew Inglot have it too but I don’t want Inglot’s lol. I think of this day and night and even dreamt of it (see, I think too much) and so one day I emailed the lady at MUFE to ask for the price. To my surprise, she told me the small one cost RM20 while the large one cost RM25. I bought the large flat steel palette and I think I will be going back for the small one. Actually the large one is just perfect. I have a room to hold the palette, to swirl my foundation brush on a section, another section for eyebrow gel and so on. I’m just itching to get the small one as collection . I’ve been using this everyday since I got it. I never use the back of my hand for foundation or for any makeup product anymore.

Small Glass Container
You see this coming didn’t you? . This container is also something that I’ve wanted since the first day I step into SSF. The price tag? RM79.90! It’s crazy expensive although I think member price is RM69.90? I can’t remember. It is still expensive. I’m glad I hold on to not purchasing it because this container was on sale for RM39.90 (members only) from 10th Oct until 2nd Nov 2014. I couldn’t make up my mind if I want to purchase it and finally I drove to SSF Puchong on the last day and grab one. I’m glad I did because it is so pretty. I used this to keep all my cosmetic cotton bud because the larger container that you see on the back is too heavy to be lifted up everyday. I might risk dropping the lid and broke it hehe. The container is so shiny that my camera just couldn’t focus on it. Sigh.

Guerlain Météorites Wulong Exceptional Pressed Powder
Despite owning four Guerlain Meteorites product at the moment, I don’t use it very often now as I’m constantly rushing out the door and this step is not so important. However when I’m feeling luxury, I’d reach out for this pressed version instead. I saved a lot of time swirling the brush into the can because this pressed powder doesn’t require much effort in getting the product onto the brush. Wulong is actually more shimmery than the rest I own so a quick dusting is all I need. I also happen to like this more. For some reason I see a better result as to compare with others.

MAKE UP FOR EVER Aqua Eyes, Stila Smudge Stick & Wet n’ Wild Coloricon Brow & Eye Liner
It’s all about eyeliner pencils for me this month. I don’t have the luxury to do liquid eyeliner so pencil is a quicker solution for me. I have a Stila Smudge Stick but I sort of messed up the twist mechanic and wasted the whole lead so I have to get new one. I bought a set of Stila Flawless Gems Smudge Stick Trio and a set of MAKE UP FOR EVER Aqua Eyes Duo Set that comes with two 25L Matte Brown. I absolutely love all of it! I never imagine myself liking eyeliner pencils this much until I bought five at one go. When Wet n’ Wild is made available in SaSa IOI City Mall, I went to take a look and bought the Coloricon Brow & Eye Liner in 655 Charcoal. I thought the shade is like the ZA Ever Brows and it turns out too dark for my brow so I’m using it mainly as eyeliner and to line my upper waterline as well as in between lashes.

Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush Palette
Yeap. I finally gave in to the much talked about Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush Palette. I was waiting for Net-a-Porter to re-offer free express shipping and finally it came back on Black Friday / Cyber Monday sale. This blush palette was retailing for USD68.13 but I paid USD61.94. Probably due to the sale event. After convertion, the palette cost RM215. Ouch! The palette is quite small. Each blush pan is even more smaller than expected. However I do admit it’s way worthy to get this than the single that’s retailing for USD45. What’s funny about this palette is that I always always always over applied it. I do my makeup in a dark room at 6am in the morning so I can’t really see anything and kept on applying. What I’m amazed is, eventhough I over applied the blush, I still look good and glowy. It also gave me a cheek line. What’s not to love right?

MAKE UP FOR EVER 124 Powder Kabuki
I have had this kabuki for a few months now and it’s sitting in my drawer since then. This kabuki is specially designed to work hand-in-hand with MAKE UP FOR EVER HD Powder. I finally bought a full size MUFE HD Powder from Zalora’s 12.12 Online Fever sale so I happily took the kabuki out, gave it a good bath and used it with the powder. It’s AMAZING. So soft, doesn’t remove the foundation that was on my face and it doesn’t need a lot of product to work on. Why do I took this long to use it eh?

That’s my December 2014 favourites! Oh well it actually contain a bit of October and November as well. I do have more products that I’ve been enjoying but I plan to review them so I didn’t include them here in the favourites. November and December is also the busiest month for us beautyholics as most of the holiday collection and value set is out. What have you been loving recently? I’m trying very hard to forbid myself for buying too much. It is really hard. I managed to deter from buying a few as of now. I can’t guarantee I can stay this way for long haha

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